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Long Haul Truck Driver
Employer
Rainbow Transport Employees Inc.Date Posted
November 25, 2025Languages
English-
Location Acheson, AB
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Earnings $34.00 to $36.00 hourly (to be negotiated)
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Work Hours 50 to 60 hours per week
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Position Permanent Full Time
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Vacancies 3  Vacancies
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Closing Date Dec 22, 2025
Employer
Rainbow Transport Employees Inc.
Languages
English
Education
No degree, certificate or diploma
Tasks
- Plan or adjust routes based on changing conditions, using computer equipment, global positioning systems (GPS) equipment, or other navigation devices, to minimize fuel consumption and carbon emissions
- Mountain driving expertise
- Professionalism in customer service
- Load and unload goods
- Obtain special permits and other documents required to transport cargo on international routes
- Operate and drive straight or articulated trucks to transport goods and materials
- Oversee condition of vehicle and inspect tires, lights, brakes, cold storage and other equipment
- Perform brake adjustments
- Perform pre-trip, en route and post-trip inspection and oversee all aspects of vehicle
- Tarping and ensuring safety and security of cargo
- Transport and handle dangerous goods
Type of trucking and equipment
- Extended length tractor-trailer combination
- Flatbed
- Refrigerated
- Straight truck (4,600kg+ or 10,000lbs+ with 3+ axles)
- Tractor-trailer
- Tractor-trailer A train
- Tractor-trailer B train
Transportation/travel experience
- Long-haul
- National
- Short-haul
Area of specialization
Truck driving
Security and safety
Criminal record check
Transportation/travel information
Valid driver's licence
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Attention to detail
- Sitting
Personal suitability
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Team player
- Hardworking
- Patience
Screening questions
Are you willing to relocate for this position?
Experience
2 years to less than 3 years
Employment terms options
- Night
- Day
- Weekend
Workplace information
On the road job
Health benefits
- Dental plan
- Health care plan
- Vision care benefits
Financial benefits
- Bonus
- Group insurance benefits
- Life insurance
- Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP)
Other benefits
- Free parking available
- Learning/training paid by employer
- Other benefits
- Parking available
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Interest Codes
- METHODICAL
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Interest in copying to record cargo information, distance travelled, fuel consumption and other information in log books or on on-board computers, and to obtain special permits and other documents required to transport cargo on international routes; and in performing pre-trip inspections of vehicle systems and equipment such as tires, lights, brakes, and cold storage
- OBJECTIVE
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Interest in driving straight and articulated trucks to transport goods and materials; may drive as part of a two-person team or convoy, and may transport hazardous products and dangerous goods
- directive
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Interest in speaking to communicate with dispatchers and other drivers using citizens' band (CB) radios, cellular telephones and on-board computers; and in overseeing all aspects and functions of vehicle such as condition of equipment, loading and unloading, and safety and security of cargo
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